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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>E.279. Release 8.0.1</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /><link rel="prev" href="release-8-0-2.html" title="E.278. Release 8.0.2" /><link rel="next" href="release-8-0.html" title="E.280. Release 8.0" /></head><body><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">E.279. Release 8.0.1</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="release-8-0-2.html" title="E.278. Release 8.0.2">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="release.html" title="Appendix E. Release Notes">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix E. Release Notes</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 11.1 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="release-8-0.html" title="E.280. Release 8.0">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></hr></div><div class="sect1" id="RELEASE-8-0-1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">E.279. Release 8.0.1</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="release-8-0-1.html#id-1.11.6.283.4">E.279.1. Migration to Version 8.0.1</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="release-8-0-1.html#id-1.11.6.283.5">E.279.2. Changes</a></span></dt></dl></div><p><strong>Release date: </strong>2005-01-31</p><p> This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.0, including several security-related issues. For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see <a class="xref" href="release-8-0.html" title="E.280. Release 8.0">Section E.280</a>. </p><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.6.283.4"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">E.279.1. Migration to Version 8.0.1</h3></div></div></div><p> A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.0. </p></div><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.6.283.5"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">E.279.2. Changes</h3></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Disallow <code class="command">LOAD</code> to non-superusers</p><p> On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen), <code class="command">LOAD</code> can be used to make the server execute arbitrary code. Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Check that creator of an aggregate function has the right to execute the specified transition functions</p><p> This oversight made it possible to bypass denial of EXECUTE permission on a function.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fix security and 64-bit issues in contrib/intagg</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris Jurka)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too many parameters (Neil)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Make <code class="command">ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</code> enforce domain constraints in all cases</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</p><p> The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the left input. This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers. </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Improve planning of grouped aggregate queries</p></li><li class="listitem"><p><code class="command">ROLLBACK TO <em class="replaceable"><code>savepoint</code></em></code> closes cursors created since the savepoint</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fix inadequate backend stack size on Windows</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Avoid SHGetSpecialFolderPath() on Windows (Magnus)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fix some problems in running pg_autovacuum as a Windows service (Dave Page)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Multiple minor bug fixes in pg_dump/pg_restore</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fix ecpg segfault with named structs used in typedefs (Michael)</p></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="release-8-0-2.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="release.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="release-8-0.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">E.278. 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